THE AiCon TEAM Kris Bailey MBA, BA, MLT President & Lead Consultant AiCon Inc. Ms. Kris Bailey, Executive MBA, BA, Medical Laboratory Technologist is the senior laboratory consultant and President of AiCon Inc. (a laboratory consulting practice). For the past 15 years she has held progressive diagnostic management positions in Canadian public and private laboratories, commercial laboratory industry in the USA and Asia-Pacific and is an Executive Committee member of a public hospital corporation. Her Executive MBA from The Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto Canada, specializing in International Business, has provided the structure for managing a diverse management portfolio. During the past seven years, she has provided expertise to laboratories owned by Practice Management Groups, Laboratory Corporations, Ministries of Health, Academic Health Science Center, groups of community hospitals, healthcare consulting firms, laboratory information technology companies, and pharmaceutical companies. All associates have, as their base education, training as medical technologists. From there each brings a unique set of complimentary skills and experience in many areas including laboratory process, laboratory automation, facility program design and project management. An organizational management associate has extensive experience in laboratories, but brings change management and leadership development as a key tool with experience of cross-industry organizational development. EXPECTED BENEFITS of CHOOSING AiCon Inc. If you are looking for innovation of laboratory process and design, choose AiCon - you will derive benefits from a bi-partisan approach as well as an integrative and consistent approach. The underlying requirement is to ensure that process, people, technology and services all benefit, while ensuring that the project is delivered 'on-time', 'on budget' and 'to specifications'. Additional benefits include: Streamlined, effective and efficient laboratory service - DO RIGHT THINGS, AT THE RIGHT TIME, using THE RIGHT RESOURCES to make a positive impact on provider and patient outcomes; Reduction in design and 'as built' costs by up to 20% by spending serious time on detailed design and workflow analysis; Improve teamwork by shifting focus from components to integrated processes. Significant attention to workflow design and automation opportunities results in consolidation and repositioning of workstations to enable a better staffing mix, a more directed workforce and improved flow; Adjustment of skill mix and ultimate 'optimization' of human resources; Overall improved operating performance; and 'The Lab becomes a visible part of the innovative high technology image for the health system'.
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